RSS for Orchid Growers
 

Not sure if this is the best forum category for this but...

Chances are pretty good that less than 10% of you RSS subscribe to any websites with orchid related content. Less than 10% usage is unfortunately low because 100% of orchid growers can benefit from using RSS.

With that in mind I created a page to help orchid growers understand how RSS works and how they can benefit from it...

RSS for Orchid Growers

Let me know if anybody has any questions regarding the information covered on that page.

Hopefully one day the AOS will create an RSS feed for newly digitized articles.

Our forum supports RSS. I haven't had a chance to configure it. We can also do podcasting with the forum.

I have a few other things to work on first. Lots of cool stuff.

Brian

Yahoo Pipes!
 

Not all orchid related websites offer RSS feeds for their content but I'm discovering that with Yahoo Pipes it's possible to create feeds for pretty much any content.

Here are a couple examples...

AOS Articles - A feed that I created for the articles that the AOS occasionally adds to their homepage.

SBOE Orchid of the Day - A feed that I created for the Santa Barbara Orchid Estate's Orchid of the Day feature.

If you're wondering what to do with those URLs then please see RSS for Orchid Growers.

One significant drawback of using the Yahoo Pipes to create RSS feeds from scratch is that it's not very user friendly for people who don't know HTML or have never heard of RegEx. On the off chance somebody wants to give it a try then reply to this thread and I'll share a couple notes. Otherwise, if anybody wants me to create a specific feed then please PM me and let me know how many orchids you'll send me for my time :D